Wirral hit by flash floods again

4:08pm Wednesday 15th August 2012 in News

Picture sent in by reader shows a flooded Hoylake Road in Moreton this afternoon Picture sent in by reader shows a flooded Hoylake Road in Moreton this afternoon

WIRRAL has fallen victim to flash flooding again this afternoon as heavy rain swept the borough for the second time this week.

On Monday night firefighters were called to action after receiving calls from residents about water coming into their homes.

More heavy rain is forecast for tonight.

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EddieGremlin says...
6:09pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Now I am no expert on matters such as these. I don't profess to have degree's in Estate Management and I am not a Civil Engineer..... But CLEANING OUT THE ROADSIDE GRIDS AND DRAINS, is it just possible that by doing that once in a while THE WATER WOULD DRAIN AWAY. Or is this considered ROCKET SCIENCE.....

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steady cyclist says...
6:43pm Wed 15 Aug 12

Hoylake today the main road was absolutely flooded, bet the streetscene bods will be out in force tonight cleaning all the drains, just incase angry of hoylake gets their feet wet.

But in a god way it washes all the dog pooh away..

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Johnxx says...
10:49am Thu 16 Aug 12

There is no way that rain water in the volumes that we have experienced in the past two days, heavier than I can recall in ten years, can be carried away even if the gullies were cleared daily because there is only so much that the underground pipes can carry. To carry more, they must be bigger. Imagine trying to force water through a hosepipe; it will burst if there is too much (too high pressure). Do we really want to pay vast sums of money for our roads to accommodate huge drains that will be used twice in ten years. I live on a hill with the sea at one end. As the rain fell, the road was filled with rain water, not flood water, from garden wall to garden wall even though it had no restrictions to flow. Drains cannot cope with this volume of water. Sorry!

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EddieGremlin says...
12:15pm Thu 16 Aug 12

Yes, it very true, we have miles of underground drains to carry water away and they have a finite capacity. But unless water can actually get IN these drains the water will pool and flood. When was the last time you saw a drain cleaning wagon?
So, are you happy to pay your water bill in the knowledge that they aren't doing what you are paying them for? Our road flooded but we don't live on a hill, so the water had nowhere to flow too...

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keef666 says...
7:48pm Thu 16 Aug 12

Have to agree with EddieGremlin on this one,
But building on flood plains never helps!

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JohnON says...
8:38am Wed 22 Aug 12

Building on any "green space" doesn't help either. The push for more and more houses has to be balanced with the infrastructure's ability to handle the reduction in natural drainage.

The fashion for paving over the front and back gardens of existing houses adds to the problem.

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Johnxx says...
9:55am Wed 22 Aug 12

I agree, you are all correct.

Gullies must be kept cleared but the drainage system would soon be filled by the volume of rain that we have seen recently. See how Los Angeles copes with its Storm Drain System. Equally, do you want to pay for something similar?

Removing dog faeces by rain storm is too drastic for me. I'd rather see owners controlled and fined.

Building on flood plains has to be stopped. The clue is in the name. Building close by, such as Wirral Waters, will be hazardous as Climate Change makes its affects obvious in our estuaries.

Building on any green space should, also, be avoided.

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